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Tokyo, 2008.03.30

It seems that every six to eighteen months, I redesign this website from scratch for one reason or another. In mid 2007, it wasn't so much a redesign as a wholesale reconstruction, following the catastrophic loss of the content database that drives the site (it seems that my then host was incapable of running the MySQL service properly).

This time, I've decided that the ~400-500 page site that's currently up (though much of it remains unnavigable) is irrelevant, outdated or poorly written. So I'm taking it offline, and reorganizing the site along some basic concepts. There will be only five sections, to keep the navigation system reasonable, and each section will only consist of photo collections and articles that I've revised or edited.

The new sections will be:

-articles

-adventures

-photos

-creations

-about me

rand()m quote

The point isn't revenge. It is justice. Revenge is like a wave that washes up on shore - it always washes back out again. Justice is like the shore - it's still there after the wave comes and goes.

—commenter "JP" on a Rolling Stone article about the crooks running Wall Street